WEBVTT - Michael Gates In Studio (10/26) 0:00:00.710 --> 0:00:04.269 KFI AM 640, you're listening to the John Kobelt Podcast 0:00:04.330 --> 0:00:15.560 on the iHeartRadio app. KFI AM 640, live everywhere on 0:00:16.270 --> 0:00:20.419 the iHeartRadio app. John Kobelt Show, we're on until 6 0:00:20.420 --> 0:00:23.460 after 6 o'clock. The podcast, John Kobelt Show On Demand. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.360 And we got a live stream going on right now, 0:00:26.460 --> 0:00:28.580 live on YouTube, live on X. You might see we 0:00:28.620 --> 0:00:32.400 have an extra figure here. on your screen, and that 0:00:32.460 --> 0:00:36.280 is Michael Gates. He's the Republican candidate for Attorney General 0:00:36.700 --> 0:00:40.659 against Rob Bonta, and we're going to talk to him 0:00:40.700 --> 0:00:42.309 for the next half hour. We've had him on quite 0:00:42.350 --> 0:00:45.190 a few times, former Mayor of Huntington Beach, formerly in 0:00:45.210 --> 0:00:46.870 the Department of Justice as well. 0:00:47.409 --> 0:00:47.729 Welcome. 0:00:47.790 --> 0:00:49.949 How are you? Really good. Really, really good. 0:00:50.370 --> 0:00:52.510 We're just a week out from Election Day, and I 0:00:52.550 --> 0:00:53.530 am feeling really good. 0:00:53.850 --> 0:00:57.709 So, great. We are really at... We've hit rock bottom. 0:00:58.130 --> 0:01:00.370 I mean, if we were. 0:01:01.460 --> 0:01:05.280 drug addict, and many people are in this state, this 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:09.560 would be the time to call the emergency 911 rescuers 0:01:09.780 --> 0:01:12.890 and take you to a hospital for the next six months. 0:01:13.390 --> 0:01:15.890 I mean, life is really bad for a lot of 0:01:15.930 --> 0:01:18.350 people here for all the reasons that we know, and 0:01:18.370 --> 0:01:21.950 there's no sign it's going to get any better. Are 0:01:22.110 --> 0:01:25.520 you sensing anybody out there is waking up to this? 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.929 Yeah, you know, that's a good question. And we really 0:01:28.950 --> 0:01:31.590 are going to find out on November 3rd, obviously, with 0:01:31.630 --> 0:01:35.670 the elections. The polls have consistently been saying for about 0:01:35.709 --> 0:01:39.200 a year that 65 percent of respondents to those polls 0:01:39.220 --> 0:01:40.979 say that California is headed in the wrong direction. So 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:46.479 that's Democrats, independents and Republicans. I have faith that Californians 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.860 are ready for new leadership. I can tell you that poll, 0:01:49.180 --> 0:01:50.600 when I saw that poll last year, that's one of 0:01:50.620 --> 0:01:52.660 the reasons I got into this race. I thought, you 0:01:52.700 --> 0:01:55.300 know what, with polling like that, where a lot of 0:01:55.340 --> 0:01:57.940 people think that California is in crisis and really are 0:01:57.980 --> 0:02:00.320 looking for new type of leadership. That's a good time 0:02:00.340 --> 0:02:01.700 for me to get in as the challenger. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.360 California Post had a very similar poll that came out 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.060 just last week. And the percentage of people who are upset, 0:02:08.540 --> 0:02:11.160 and they're upset with Gavin Newsom, too. 0:02:11.220 --> 0:02:11.940 He got very bad. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:16.250 Like, they're connecting the bad state of affairs with Newsom 0:02:17.230 --> 0:02:19.450 and his policies, and they don't like it. 0:02:20.290 --> 0:02:22.810 Now, they've got to translate that into voting. 0:02:22.850 --> 0:02:28.310 Yeah. For Steve Hilton and for you instead of Newsom 0:02:28.370 --> 0:02:29.010 and Bonte. 0:02:29.150 --> 0:02:31.190 It's got to be Hilton and Gates. 0:02:31.950 --> 0:02:33.570 And there's been a lot of– I've gotten a lot 0:02:33.590 --> 0:02:36.369 of questions from media saying, well, a lot of these 0:02:36.410 --> 0:02:39.049 problems that we're experiencing in California, including the $ 7 a 0:02:39.130 --> 0:02:41.900 gallon gas, isn't that the Trump administration's fault? You know, 0:02:41.940 --> 0:02:44.120 shouldn't you be grinding an ax or pointing the finger? 0:02:44.180 --> 0:02:47.100 And I tell people all the time, John, look, you 0:02:47.139 --> 0:02:50.780 can actually hold both accountable. It's not mutually exclusive, one 0:02:50.810 --> 0:02:52.429 or the other. You can say, look, I'm not happy 0:02:52.810 --> 0:02:55.270 with everything that the administration is doing in Washington, D.C., 0:02:55.290 --> 0:02:57.450 but I'm also going to hold my leadership here in 0:02:57.490 --> 0:02:58.810 California accountable. 0:02:58.830 --> 0:03:00.750 You still have journalists asking you that question? 0:03:00.810 --> 0:03:01.570 Yes, absolutely. 0:03:01.590 --> 0:03:02.260 Well, it's idiotic. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.940 Gas should be $ 3 a gallon. Trump's responsible for $ 2, 0:03:06.980 --> 0:03:08.600 and Newsom is responsible. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:09.860 For $ 2. 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.220 So it's a 50-50 deal. We can control the Newsom 0:03:13.220 --> 0:03:16.990 $ 2 increase by voting properly the next week. 0:03:17.430 --> 0:03:20.110 So Hilton obviously has a plan. You know he's got 0:03:20.150 --> 0:03:23.150 his talking points out there. But I have also reminded 0:03:23.210 --> 0:03:26.060 people that California is largely a dumpster fire because of 0:03:26.139 --> 0:03:29.600 Rob Bonta. We can look at high income tax and 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.580 high gas prices and we can point to the finger 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.070 at the governor. But when you look at the high 0:03:34.110 --> 0:03:36.570 crime rates, California is the second most dangerous state in 0:03:36.590 --> 0:03:39.470 the nation right now. That's because of Rob Bonta. When 0:03:39.510 --> 0:03:43.560 we have the corruption, the $ 425 billion of fraud of 0:03:43.620 --> 0:03:47.560 our taxpayer money, $ 425 billion, there's no investigations and there 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.320 haven't been. That's Rob Bonta. When you look at the 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.800 elections issues, all the election integrity issues, why aren't the 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.760 elections being investigated? Why wasn't the June primary in LA 0:03:57.820 --> 0:04:00.740 investigated by Rob Bonta? All of this is Rob Bonta. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.150 So when we complain about what's going on in California, 0:04:03.190 --> 0:04:05.910 when we see thousands of people on Skid Row, These 0:04:06.050 --> 0:04:08.790 are Rob Bonta's problems. He's the top law enforcement officer 0:04:08.810 --> 0:04:10.990 in the state of California. He is the one who 0:04:11.030 --> 0:04:14.110 is ultimately responsible for public safety. That's, as you know, 0:04:14.150 --> 0:04:15.870 that's why I'm running, because I had a great track 0:04:15.910 --> 0:04:18.470 record in Huntington Beach. I know how to fix these problems. 0:04:18.810 --> 0:04:20.810 But a lot of the things that we're experiencing in 0:04:20.870 --> 0:04:25.419 California right now are actually Rob Bonta's fault. Newsom, Newsom, Newsom, 0:04:25.450 --> 0:04:26.520 he doesn't deserve a defense. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:26.980 I get it. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.660 But Rob Bonta's got to be held accountable. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.340 Yeah, and Bonta wants to serve another four years here 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:33.980 in California. 0:04:34.020 --> 0:04:37.770 Newsom is going off. Elsewhere. All right. You were talking 0:04:38.029 --> 0:04:39.950 about the elections and the fraud. 0:04:40.870 --> 0:04:42.410 Just a couple hours ago, I don't know if you 0:04:42.430 --> 0:04:44.570 saw in the California Post, I know you're busy campaigning, 0:04:45.010 --> 0:04:47.890 but there was a photo. There was an open box 0:04:47.930 --> 0:04:51.830 sitting in a hallway on Skid Row in one of 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.890 these nonprofits, the Midnight Mission. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:55.190 Hundreds of ballots. 0:04:55.710 --> 0:04:59.300 Hundreds of ballots not filled out yet because the homeless, 0:04:59.779 --> 0:05:03.500 that's their mail drop. Their address is the Midnight Mission. 0:05:04.260 --> 0:05:08.230 And I'm thinking, well, Anything could happen with these ballots 0:05:08.270 --> 0:05:10.690 right now. And these are the ones that the workers 0:05:10.770 --> 0:05:15.570 take to the fields where the homeless are laying and 0:05:15.610 --> 0:05:18.000 have them put their X on the bottom of the ballot. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.600 And if the ballots aren't filled out yet, they were 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.680 stacked there because they were harvested before they were completed. 0:05:23.700 --> 0:05:25.600 And then they're going to take those ballots out and 0:05:25.620 --> 0:05:27.260 get people to fill them out on the street, as 0:05:27.300 --> 0:05:30.750 you said. And sign or whatever and claim that those 0:05:30.830 --> 0:05:33.750 are their votes. And they're probably going to get paid 0:05:33.810 --> 0:05:36.650 for that, right? So the whole system is broken. And 0:05:36.690 --> 0:05:38.529 when we talk about how crooked a lot of these 0:05:38.710 --> 0:05:41.370 NGOs are or a lot of these third-party groups that 0:05:41.430 --> 0:05:44.440 do work, quote-unquote, with the government to try to, quote-unquote, 0:05:44.740 --> 0:05:49.120 help the needy. they're suspicious. I mean, there is a reason, 0:05:49.220 --> 0:05:52.700 many of reasons, why we have questions about their integrity. 0:05:53.020 --> 0:05:55.160 We have questions about what they're doing with our tax money. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.920 We have questions about the services they're providing. And now 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.700 we find boxes of, like you said, ballots. I mean, 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.880 it's unconscionable. But everybody in Sacramento, Rob Bonta, Newsom, they 0:06:04.900 --> 0:06:07.220 all said, there's nothing to see here. There's nothing to 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:07.480 see here. 0:06:07.500 --> 0:06:09.000 Yeah, that's all they say. No, no, no, it's fine, John. 0:06:09.060 --> 0:06:11.120 It's fine. It's totally fine. So what would you do? Like, 0:06:11.190 --> 0:06:13.710 if you saw that photo and you're the attorney general. 0:06:13.730 --> 0:06:17.090 I would be down there the next day... personally at 0:06:17.130 --> 0:06:21.089 the location, launching an investigation the very next day. I 0:06:21.130 --> 0:06:24.210 wouldn't even wait. There wouldn't be talking points. It wouldn't 0:06:24.250 --> 0:06:27.440 be political rhetoric. I would literally come down, be at 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.900 the location and be investigating. Those ballots would be seized. 0:06:30.980 --> 0:06:33.620 There would be a full blown investigation, not only into 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.120 that specific incident, but also the NGO. Why are you, 0:06:37.420 --> 0:06:39.310 why are you allowing this kind of thing to happen? 0:06:39.430 --> 0:06:41.690 What's going on here? I would be peeling back the 0:06:41.710 --> 0:06:43.099 layers and we would get to the bottom of it. 0:06:43.510 --> 0:06:46.450 There was no security. The Post reporter just walked right 0:06:46.490 --> 0:06:49.710 up to the box. Yeah, it was Jamie Page. No 0:06:49.730 --> 0:06:51.510 security at all. She could have picked up the box 0:06:51.550 --> 0:06:53.090 and walked out with it. Well, at least it's a 0:06:53.130 --> 0:06:55.050 reporter now and not Nick Shirley. A lot of the 0:06:55.089 --> 0:06:56.930 reporters have been turning a blind eye to all this 0:06:56.950 --> 0:06:57.710 stuff for years. 0:06:57.730 --> 0:07:01.330 Yeah, I know. Well, they seem complicit. 0:07:01.390 --> 0:07:05.109 You were telling me that the reporters are still blaming 0:07:05.150 --> 0:07:08.050 Donald Trump for all of the gas increase. When it's 0:07:08.089 --> 0:07:12.040 a split responsibility in here, that box of ballots has 0:07:12.140 --> 0:07:13.020 been there for a while. 0:07:13.060 --> 0:07:13.720 Right. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.030 And we have a real meaningful opportunity to make a 0:07:17.050 --> 0:07:20.150 change here in California. I know In LA, the mayor's 0:07:20.190 --> 0:07:22.850 race did not go well in the June primary, but John, 0:07:23.050 --> 0:07:24.890 while there has been a lot of fraud, the fraud 0:07:24.950 --> 0:07:26.990 is finite. There is a certain amount of fraud and 0:07:27.010 --> 0:07:29.060 there's a certain amount of fraud everywhere. But if we 0:07:29.070 --> 0:07:31.860 turn out the vote and we exceed, we outpace the fraud, 0:07:31.900 --> 0:07:33.960 we make it too big to rig, we can make 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:35.880 a difference. If you look at the numbers from the 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:40.380 June primary here in LA, The turnout among Republicans, Democrats, 0:07:40.420 --> 0:07:41.700 and independents was not great. 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.000 It was very average. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.060 It was even a below average. If LA turns out 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.880 in greater numbers here in a week and we really 0:07:48.940 --> 0:07:51.150 run up the score and you vote for me for 0:07:51.190 --> 0:07:54.450 attorney general, for instance, and we get thousands more votes 0:07:54.510 --> 0:07:58.070 that maybe otherwise we wouldn't have gotten because people said, yes, 0:07:58.210 --> 0:08:00.530 I'm going to participate. I'm not going to throw in 0:08:00.550 --> 0:08:01.650 the towel. I'm not going to sit on my hands, 0:08:01.670 --> 0:08:03.870 but I'm going to participate. I'm going to vote. We 0:08:03.930 --> 0:08:05.850 can make it too big to rig. So whether you're 0:08:05.890 --> 0:08:10.000 voting for Becerra or Hilton, whatever, the best way, LA's 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.380 got to know, the best way to change California is 0:08:12.420 --> 0:08:14.260 to have a new attorney general. We can return to 0:08:14.300 --> 0:08:16.340 law and order. We can fight crime, fight the corruption, 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.990 hold people accountable. We can actually turn California around with 0:08:20.050 --> 0:08:22.930 a new attorney general. So no matter who you're voting 0:08:22.970 --> 0:08:25.950 for in other parts of the ticket, I need your vote, 0:08:26.010 --> 0:08:26.870 and you've got to help me run. 0:08:26.810 --> 0:08:27.230 Up the score. 0:08:27.250 --> 0:08:29.610 All right, we'll continue with Michael Gates in just a moment. 0:08:29.690 --> 0:08:32.630 He is running for attorney general. Against Rob Bonta. 0:08:33.450 --> 0:08:39.910 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:08:39.910 --> 0:08:43.600 And we continue with Michael Gates. He is a Republican 0:08:43.660 --> 0:08:48.620 running for attorney general against Rob Bonta. And he for years, 0:08:48.660 --> 0:08:51.080 he was the city attorney in Huntington Beach. He's also 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.900 worked in Washington in the Department of Justice. And now 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.980 he's trying to be an attorney general. As you campaign 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:02.260 and talk to people, what are they telling you? What 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.589 do they want you to do? So turn his mic on. 0:09:06.370 --> 0:09:06.650 Yeah. 0:09:06.710 --> 0:09:09.690 So my, uh, thank you for that. So, you know, 0:09:09.710 --> 0:09:12.530 my audiences have been sort of across the spectrum. I've 0:09:12.580 --> 0:09:16.010 had Democrats, independents and Republicans. A lot of them say, 0:09:16.030 --> 0:09:18.470 I want you to hold people accountable. I want you 0:09:18.490 --> 0:09:21.190 to fight the corruption and send them to jail. They 0:09:21.230 --> 0:09:24.950 want scalps, right? People want scalps. They want accountability. And 0:09:24.970 --> 0:09:27.650 I tell them all the time, absolutely. I plan on 0:09:27.670 --> 0:09:29.730 day one to roll up my sleeves and to go 0:09:29.910 --> 0:09:33.480 after corruption, not only in the NGOs that we talked 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.020 about earlier and the fraud that's occurred, but also corruption 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.819 in government. I mean, I'm prepared, frankly, to take a 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.910 look at Rob Bonta. Because as you know, he's running 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.380 from the law already. The FBI has come knocking at 0:09:46.420 --> 0:09:48.860 his door to ask him a lot of tough questions 0:09:48.900 --> 0:09:53.219 regarding bribery, corruption, pay to play, all related to a 0:09:53.260 --> 0:09:55.450 lot of activity out of Oakland. And the Shengtao and 0:09:55.630 --> 0:09:57.650 Andy Duong trial is going on right now in federal court. 0:09:58.730 --> 0:10:03.000 And so the FBI has already... probed Rob Bonta on 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.020 those issues. And he spent a half a million dollars 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.140 on criminal defense attorneys trying to answer those questions to 0:10:08.179 --> 0:10:11.420 the FBI. But the reality is those are the federal charges, 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.199 but there are like or equivalent state charges. And I 0:10:15.260 --> 0:10:17.720 am going to look into that as well. I am 0:10:17.740 --> 0:10:20.100 going to hold everybody accountable, whether it is Rob Bonta, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.060 our hope to soon to be former attorney general, or 0:10:24.179 --> 0:10:27.980 any other politician. I'm going to go to Sacramento, probably 0:10:28.059 --> 0:10:29.460 making a lot of enemies. I'm not going to go 0:10:29.500 --> 0:10:31.140 there to make friends or look to make friends. I'm 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.090 going to go there fighting for everyday Californians, holding people accountable, 0:10:34.110 --> 0:10:37.170 enforcing the law, reducing crime throughout the state of California. 0:10:37.210 --> 0:10:39.300 I was on Skid Row, as you know. Not that 0:10:39.340 --> 0:10:41.209 long ago. And I was expecting to see hundreds of 0:10:41.250 --> 0:10:43.550 people out there. There were thousands. And it's all because 0:10:43.590 --> 0:10:47.120 we're lawless in California. But we're lawless because of Rob Bonta. 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.160 Folks need to know. that we need to hold our 0:10:50.179 --> 0:10:54.000 attorney general responsible for the lawlessness and the chaos. It 0:10:54.059 --> 0:10:57.200 is not just your local DA. It is the attorney general. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.920 The DA works for the attorney general. So if you 0:10:59.970 --> 0:11:02.890 have a soft-on-crime DA like George Gascon or Chessie Boudin 0:11:02.910 --> 0:11:06.790 like in San Francisco, those creatures were created, those DAs 0:11:06.830 --> 0:11:09.990 were created because of Rob Bonta. Rob Bonta allowed that 0:11:10.030 --> 0:11:10.570 to happen. 0:11:10.730 --> 0:11:12.100 Yeah, most people don't know that. No. 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.960 That if a DA gets out of hand or allows 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.000 too much crime to go on, The attorney general can 0:11:20.059 --> 0:11:20.500 step in. 0:11:20.980 --> 0:11:21.980 Absolutely step in. 0:11:22.260 --> 0:11:25.349 And the attorney general can't fire the DA because they're elected, 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.850 but the DA can, or the AG can reach down 0:11:28.890 --> 0:11:32.050 and I will reach down into that district, reach down 0:11:32.130 --> 0:11:35.910 into the district attorney's office and prosecute those cases myself. 0:11:36.510 --> 0:11:38.300 So when I say I'm going to prosecute and hold 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:42.080 people accountable, I mean, no exceptions, no excuses. I will 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.180 not be able to be pointing the finger at a DA, 0:11:44.220 --> 0:11:45.699 a soft on crime DA or anything like that. 0:11:46.020 --> 0:11:47.239 We're going to get back to law and order. 0:11:47.710 --> 0:11:49.980 In the state of California from top to bottom, and 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.780 I'm going to work with my DAs to do that. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.980 And if they refuse or resist, I will go reach 0:11:55.020 --> 0:11:57.640 down and prosecute those cases myself. There will be no 0:11:57.700 --> 0:11:58.720 resistance or refusal. 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:03.270 Bonta doesn't seem to have any passion or interest in 0:12:03.370 --> 0:12:06.790 state crimes. He pursues a lot of federal lawsuits against 0:12:06.809 --> 0:12:08.250 the administration, and that's. 0:12:08.090 --> 0:12:08.790 What he trumpets. 0:12:09.330 --> 0:12:13.820 But there's been very little activity considering The mind-numbing amount 0:12:13.860 --> 0:12:17.200 of fraud. I mean, I can't keep track of it all. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.840 It's so overwhelming. I wonder if people have shut down, 0:12:20.460 --> 0:12:26.540 whether it's the Medicare, Medicaid, the hospices, the nonprofit homeless industry, 0:12:26.620 --> 0:12:29.800 the unemployment fraud that was tens of billions of dollars, 0:12:29.820 --> 0:12:33.060 the high-speed rail. I mean, it's a long list, and 0:12:33.100 --> 0:12:37.660 it's hundreds of billions of dollars. He doesn't seem interested 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:38.630 in any of it. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.640 I can't remember a moment where he said enough of this. 0:12:42.460 --> 0:12:45.920 So he's been in office since 2021. Newsome put him 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.380 there as an appointee. So he was appointed as our 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.500 attorney general in 2021. I believe Newsome did so because 0:12:51.540 --> 0:12:53.479 he knew Rob Bonta would cover for this kind of 0:12:53.540 --> 0:12:56.840 corruption that you're talking about. Literally run interference and turn 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.980 the other cheek, look the other way. He's been running 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.840 on interference on truth and justice and criminal justice. He's 0:13:02.860 --> 0:13:07.110 been covering for corruption. It's been tragic. The $ 425 billion 0:13:07.550 --> 0:13:10.330 is an estimate of the total taxpayer money that has amassed, 0:13:10.970 --> 0:13:13.900 that has been lost. over the past five years, the 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.720 same amount of time that Rob Bonta has been in office, 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:20.360 the special, the auditor, state auditor, excuse me, came out 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.440 with a report that said that actually state leaders knew 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.320 about the waste, fraud, and abuse for years and chose 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:29.300 to do nothing about it. That $ 425 billion, ladies and gentlemen, 0:13:29.470 --> 0:13:33.869 is $ 22, 000 per taxpayer, $ 22, 000 per taxpayer. So this is 0:13:33.929 --> 0:13:37.170 not like, you know, budget dust where, you know, it's 0:13:37.190 --> 0:13:41.030 a rounding error. We're literally talking about Tons of money 0:13:41.150 --> 0:13:44.390 per taxpayer that's been lost. And Rob Bonta has been 0:13:44.429 --> 0:13:47.130 turning a blind eye, just looking the other way, running 0:13:47.170 --> 0:13:50.820 cover for corruption. And this is why people are so upset. 0:13:50.860 --> 0:13:54.199 They are so angry. Rob Bonta, we need new leadership. 0:13:54.820 --> 0:13:58.580 Instead of investigating, he actually ends investigations. You probably remember 0:13:58.620 --> 0:14:02.670 that Sheriff Chad Bianco was investigating the election from 2025 0:14:02.670 --> 0:14:06.610 over Prop 50. And then Rob Bonta steps in and 0:14:06.690 --> 0:14:09.050 is trying to shut it down. So Rob Bonta does 0:14:09.110 --> 0:14:12.569 not want anything that looks like election integrity in the 0:14:12.590 --> 0:14:14.949 state of California. He does not want anything that looks 0:14:15.010 --> 0:14:18.800 like justice when it comes to fraud or corruption. He's 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:20.920 running from the law on his own right. I mean, 0:14:20.940 --> 0:14:23.100 let's be honest. The FBI comes knocking at his door. 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.660 He lawyers up with fancy criminal defense attorneys to the 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.020 tune of half a million dollars. He's running from the 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:30.640 law on his own right, yet he's our top cop. 0:14:30.930 --> 0:14:35.450 Do you think Democratic voters, enough of them, are willing 0:14:35.490 --> 0:14:38.250 to accept that this is really going on and these 0:14:38.310 --> 0:14:42.080 aren't just partisan election year charges. But what you're saying, 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.520 we've been talking about for years, long before you were running. 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.800 It's really true what you say about Bonten, what he 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.780 has done and mostly what he hasn't done. Are people 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:52.900 willing to accept this? 0:14:53.500 --> 0:14:55.990 I think most voters just don't know. They're just not 0:14:56.090 --> 0:14:58.730 as informed. I think your audience is very informed, but 0:14:58.750 --> 0:15:00.070 I think there are a lot of folks out there 0:15:00.090 --> 0:15:03.010 who end up voting on election day who just really 0:15:03.130 --> 0:15:05.410 don't know. And my job has been to get the 0:15:05.430 --> 0:15:08.979 word out. We raised $ 2 million since January. We've spent 0:15:09.790 --> 0:15:12.400 a lot of money on voter outreach, as you can imagine, 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:16.960 $ 850, 000 just on social media ads. And we were supposed 0:15:16.980 --> 0:15:19.420 to get 12 million impressions with that $ 850, 000. We've gotten 0:15:19.420 --> 0:15:21.300 65 million impressions because people are. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.000 Liking the social media ads that we put out there. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.570 They like the message, they repost it, they forward it, 0:15:29.610 --> 0:15:32.490 they're sharing it. So we're getting a lot more impressions. 0:15:32.770 --> 0:15:35.330 That means we are educating the public. It's taken some time. 0:15:35.390 --> 0:15:37.670 You know, if the, if the polling, you know, I 0:15:37.710 --> 0:15:40.530 don't look at polling as being exact, but when you've 0:15:40.550 --> 0:15:44.860 got 65 to 70% of the public angry and upset 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:50.490 with corruption and all these policies and They're reading, for example, 0:15:50.530 --> 0:15:52.130 your social media posts. 0:15:52.450 --> 0:15:53.830 Something's got to give there. 0:15:53.850 --> 0:15:58.110 That's got to translate into a different voting pattern. 0:15:58.350 --> 0:16:01.290 We need more people upset and willing to jump in 0:16:01.330 --> 0:16:04.350 and get involved in our elections than we have. There 0:16:04.390 --> 0:16:08.990 are 23 million registered voters in California. We're expecting only 0:16:09.010 --> 0:16:13.070 about 13 million to vote in this election. John, that's terrible. 0:16:13.090 --> 0:16:16.380 There's 40 million people, 23 million registered voters, and only 0:16:16.380 --> 0:16:19.020 13 million are going to vote in this election. That's 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.359 what we're expecting. We got to do better than that. 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.980 And that's why I'm out doing media like this. We've got, 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.600 I'm trying to impress upon folks. The only chance to 0:16:26.660 --> 0:16:29.660 rescue California is to get out and vote. Yes, there's fraud, 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.120 but it's finite. It's a certain amount of fraud. Let's 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:33.900 make it too big to rig. Let's run up the 0:16:33.940 --> 0:16:37.760 score on our turnout. And let's rescue California. Now is 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:38.530 the time to do it. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.580 Michael Gates, I'm voting for you. Thank you. I appreciate that. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:42.320 Thank you for coming on. 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:47.100 And I think everyone listening should because clearly Michael wants 0:16:47.180 --> 0:16:51.060 to actively clean up this mess and stop the rot. 0:16:51.860 --> 0:16:54.300 He's running for attorney general against Rob Bonta. 0:16:55.580 --> 0:17:01.500 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:09.980 KFI AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. John Kobelt Show. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.100 And we're on until 6 o'clock. In about a half 0:17:12.140 --> 0:17:15.510 an hour, we're going to have the podcast ready for you. 0:17:15.570 --> 0:17:19.889 John Kobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. And 0:17:19.910 --> 0:17:23.930 we're live streaming on X and live streaming on YouTube. 0:17:25.869 --> 0:17:29.270 People in Azusa are really pissed off. California Post has 0:17:29.310 --> 0:17:33.300 this story. Los Angeles Metro has a train that goes 0:17:33.380 --> 0:17:39.710 out to Azusa. And every night, late at night, the 0:17:39.750 --> 0:17:47.510 Metro management tosses the passengers, the homeless mental patient drug addicts, 0:17:47.810 --> 0:17:51.940 off the trains. And they end up wandering around Azusa. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:57.660 And then the police have to deal with them. There's 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:02.000 a guy named Anthony Lusion who lives near... the APU 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.600 Citrus College Station, and he's been keeping track of this. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.840 And he says, we have an influx of homeless people 0:18:10.100 --> 0:18:12.919 getting kicked off the train at a certain time, and 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.760 then they roam the community, which is terrorizing our neighbors. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:20.780 Can you imagine this? Because a lot of the people 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:25.619 taking the train late at night are drug addicts and 0:18:25.660 --> 0:18:30.260 crazy people. I mean, the trains are often rolling shelters. 0:18:32.650 --> 0:18:37.430 For the mental patients. I saw a bus today rolling 0:18:37.450 --> 0:18:40.310 by in Santa Monica as I was getting into my car. 0:18:40.410 --> 0:18:43.010 And I just, I always look at the windows because 0:18:43.050 --> 0:18:47.229 it's the same bus route down Wilshire Boulevard. And I'm 0:18:47.300 --> 0:18:50.560 looking at the windows and yeah, in the back row, 0:18:51.140 --> 0:18:57.500 there's a guy rolled up along the backseat in his bedroll. Yeah, 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.109 he actually brings his bedroll with him. So you know 0:19:00.130 --> 0:19:01.950 he's a homeless guy because most people don't bring a 0:19:02.070 --> 0:19:05.350 bedroll on the way to the office. There was nobody 0:19:05.410 --> 0:19:07.710 else on the bus. This is, you know, 7.30 in 0:19:07.730 --> 0:19:10.629 the morning, right? Should be prime time for people needing 0:19:10.650 --> 0:19:14.260 to get to work. I tell you, the buses that 0:19:14.420 --> 0:19:18.020 I see where I am on the west side, nobody 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.600 takes them. Certainly nobody that you'd want to share a 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:25.859 bus with. It's just all crazy, like dirty, literally dirty people. 0:19:25.900 --> 0:19:27.540 You can see it when they stop at a traffic light. 0:19:27.580 --> 0:19:30.270 I look in there, it's like, whoa. I felt bad 0:19:30.290 --> 0:19:32.430 there was one woman who looked like she was going 0:19:32.450 --> 0:19:36.110 to work, and then the only other passenger was this 0:19:36.430 --> 0:19:42.750 guy in his bedroll. Illusion took a surveillance footage, and 0:19:43.369 --> 0:19:46.190 it shows people climbing over a metal gate into a 0:19:46.250 --> 0:19:48.450 residential complex, and one. 0:19:48.369 --> 0:19:51.920 Man defecates outside. somebody's front door. How about that? 0:19:53.460 --> 0:19:55.080 That's the metro system for you. 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.580 Now, who's the chairman of the metro system? Karen Bass. 0:19:59.300 --> 0:20:06.510 You imagine you're running a transit system that brings a 0:20:06.570 --> 0:20:12.859 homeless guy to your front door to defecate. That is 0:20:12.900 --> 0:20:16.680 a good investment on tax dollars. If that doesn't sum 0:20:16.740 --> 0:20:20.240 up life in Southern California, where the government has a 0:20:21.570 --> 0:20:24.250 system to bring a homeless guy right to your front door, 0:20:24.369 --> 0:20:28.869 and he leaves a deposit. Metro says, well, this is 0:20:28.910 --> 0:20:33.670